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Costa Rica is a leader in press freedom in Latin AmericaThe country is ranked No. 23 in the world and fourth in the entire continentReport points out that here there is no persecution or coercion to media

IRENE RODRÍGUEZY AP irodriguez@nacion.com 12:00 AM 03/05/2011Costa Rica is leading press freedom in Latin America and the Caribbean, said yesterday the annual report press freedom 2011, issued by the private organization The Freedom House .

Green, countries where press freedom, in yellow, which is partial and in purple, where none exists.

The report, which evaluated 23 questions methodology and 109 indicators of the legal environment, political and economic, it assigns a score between 0 and 30 points to countries with free press, between 31 and 60 to those with partially independent media and among 61 and 100 points to nations that lack of press freedom.

In America, 17 countries were rated free press, including Costa Rica, which ranks number 23 worldwide with 18 points.

On this score, is fourth in the Americas and first in Latin America. The report notes that "in Costa Rica there is no persecution or coercion for the media."

In the region. Fourteen nations were rated as "partially independent".

Cuba appeared in the "worst of the worst" with nine nations where the independent press is nonexistent, the media have only official information, access to independent information is severely limited and is punishable by imprisonment of dissidents, torture and sanctions.

Meanwhile, the growing influence of organized crime in the news agenda in Mexico and increased harassment of journalists in Honduras put the two nations, along with Cuba and Venezuela, Latin America places without free media.

"Organized crime in Mexico with threats and bribes expanded their control over the news agenda," he warned.

The paper added that the guarantees for the Honduran press deteriorated by the increase of attacks, including the murder of six journalists.﻿